A list of 6 words by gangerh.
- emordnilapwas added by gangerh and appears on 6 lists
- asymmetriphobiawas added by gangerh and appears on 4 lists
- unomatopoeiawas added by gangerh and appears on 2 lists
- super-duper-ultra-hyphenatedwas added by bilby and appears on just this list
- double-barrelledwas added by gangerh and appears on just this list
- wordwas added by gangerh and appears on 150 lists
Dan337 commented on the list words-that-make-an-example
gangerh: These are called “autological” (or homological) words. (This is one of my favorite category of words, so I can’t express how happy I was when I discovered it had a name.)
February 1, 2011